ST. LOUIS — Dwaun Warmack, president of Harris-Stowe State University, is leaving after five years to take the same function at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C.
Claflin is the oldest historically black college or college in South Carolina.
The look for a new Harris-Stowe president will begin immediately, keeping with Ronald Norwood, chairman of the Board of Regents. Provost Dwyane Smith will function as president during the intervening time. During Warmack’s tenure, enrollment grew to more than 1,700 undergraduate college students. Applications expanded from 667 in 2013 to greater than 6,000 in 2018. The faculty also delivered new communications, psychology, and records to bring its general to over 50. “This became a difficult decision for me. Within the ultimate five years, we have achieved a few transformational works at HSSU, which has been recognized nationally,” Warmack stated in an assertion. “There is something special about the spirit discovered at this University. It is intense, actual, honest, genuine — and I have been proud to be part of HSSU’s wealthy history.”
The 162-year-vintage school in midtown St. Louis was created in a merger of the all-white Harris Teachers College and the all-black Stowe Teachers College following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated public faculty integration.
One of Warmack’s top priorities was including postgraduate diploma applications, which were allowed through a 2015 law followed by using the Missouri Legislature to exchange the college’s designation from strictly an instructors’ college. Harris-Stowe offers graduate stages via partnerships with Washington University for occupational therapy and Kansas City University School of Medicine and Biosciences for technological know-how.
Warmack’s tenure was also marked by challenges, including low commencement and freshman retention fees, discrimination lawsuits, and failures to comply with federal standards on crime reporting.
Warmack is the fourth chief to leave the pinnacle to publish at local universities this spring, following Mark Wrighton at Washington University and Tom George at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Michael Shonrock of Lindenwood University. James Dennis of McKendree University in Lebanon has also announced his retirement after the 2019-2020 school year.
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